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ESTABLISHED
IN 1981 CROSS-CULTURAL DANCE RESOURCES CELEBRATES ITS 27th ANNIVERSARY
IN 2008. With the average lifespan of a non-profit being 10
years, CCDR is well on its way to perpetuity.
Why this organization uses the word "Dance"
in its name
(Click
on line above for an explanation from CCDR's co-founder, Dr.
Joann Kealiinohomoku!)
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Cross-Cultural
Dance Resources, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization,
founded in 1981 and incorporated in the State of Arizona. The
organization is dedicated to research about dance and supports
many types of endeavors and activities with the dance field.
Cross-Cultural Dance Resources, Inc. programs include research
and consultation, performance events, discussions, and book
promotions.
OPERATION OF CCDR
is conducted
by a small staff :The Director of Collections is co-founder
Joann W. Kealiinohomoku, Ph.D. Policies are established
by a Board of Directors, confirmed by the participation of its
membership, the public, and various funding agencies.
SUPPORT is provided through membership dues, the Arizona Commission
on the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, the Flagstaff
Arts and Science Commission, donations and fund-raising activities.
Special programs have been funded through grants from the Arizona
Humanities Council, contributions from businesses and merchants,
collaboration with other organizations, and the public. CCDR
welcomes those who are interested in volunteering their time
and skills. Contributions to CCDR as a non-profit organization
are tax-deductible.
CCDR Vision Statement:
To enhance understanding of cultures through dance, and
of dance through cultures, believing that dance and all the
performing arts are the keys to understanding diverse peoples
and their cultures, and will contribute to personal well-being
and global peace.
CCDR Mission Statement:
To promote holistic understanding
and appreciation of the diversity and significance of dance
in cultural contexts, through research, consultation, and public
presentations that incorporate both humanities and arts; to
provide a "living museum" where people may explore
and discuss dance cultures in a welcoming atmosphere; to maintain
a library and archives that support the mission.
Goals:
- 1. Preserving Cross-Cultural
Dance Resources, Inc.'s unique resources.
- 2. Developing Cross-Cultural
Dance Resources, Inc.'s resources.
- 3. Expanding research opportunities.
- 4. Building the Endowment.
- 5. Maintaining a perpetual
institution.
- 6. Improving access to Cross-Cultural
Dance Resources, Inc.
- 7. Mentoring artists and
scholars.
- 8. Increasing public awareness
of Cross-Cultural Dance Resources, Inc.'s resources.
CCDR is a Concept:
Dance, defined broadly, occurs
in every human society. Because all human universals are critical
to societal maintenance, CCDR acknowledges that dance is not
expendable. CCDR is dedicated to learning WHY dance is universal
and WHY it is not expendable. It does this through programs
that research dance, and it shares its findings with the public
and with scholars.
CCDR is a Non-Profit Corporation
for Consultation, Performance, and Research. Our purposes are
charitable and educational: by promoting dance performances
and research; by preserving and researching dance materials;
by promoting a dynamic environment for dance events; by welcoming
discussion and consultation. CCDR has also developed the use
of Silhougraphs®. In the late 1960s Dr. Kealiinohomoku rendered
photos of dancers into silhouettes. Dancers create shapes with
their bodies, their costumes, and their paraphernalia. Several
Silhougraphs®, reduced in size, are featured in this web site.
What can you tell about these dancers?
CCDR Locations:
The CCDR Research Center is
located within easy walking distance of downtown Flagstaff,
Arizona and the Northern Arizona University. The Research Center
facility includes:
- A library with more than
14,000 shelved items, that includes the books and pamphlets
of Eleanor King and Gertrude Prokosch Kurath, both prominent
in the fields of dance and dance scholarship. The CCDR
library, a non-lending library, is open to the public two
days a week - Wednesday and Friday from noon to four, and
by appointment.
- An audio-visual room that
houses commercial and research sound recordings, slides, films,
and videotapes. Films include those made in the field
by Nadia Chilkovsky Nahumck, renowned author and Labanotator.
Videotapes include the 30-hour JVC Anthology of World
Music and Dance, and the 8-hour WNET series Dancing
(for which CCDR and Dr. Kealiinohomoku were consultants).
- Files of clippings and manuscripts
collected from numerous sources.
- Costume pieces and dance
paraphernalia from cultures around the world.
- Musical instruments from
dozen of cultures, including many collected during world travels
by Dr. Daniel Crowley, anthropologist and folklorist.
The CCDR Business Office is
located on the campus of Arizona State University in Tempe,
Arizona. The CCDR Business Office serves CCDR by promoting membership
in the organization, producing dance research guidance for ASU
students and the public, and planning and presenting public
events in partnership with the ASU Department of Dance that
demonstrate the cultural functions of dance as a human universal.
CCDR is Energy:
CCDR taps into the affective
values of human living that make life worthwhile, as they are
expressed through the performing arts.
CCDR is sustained by the dance
energy that permeates its space; by the people who participate
with, at, and for CCDR; by the pervasive knowledge that
dance is alive and viable throughout the world.
CCDR has been vitalized by the
energies brought by its Research-Choreographer-in-Residence
from 1988-1996: Savannah Walling, Helen Pelton, David
Appel, Beverly Brown, Nancy Zendora, Jonathan Lunn, Adair Landborn,
Laura Whitman and Patricia Tate; and by the fundraising dinners
to support the residency program, built around a cultural theme
such as Thailand, the Middle East, and Japan. CCDR activates
events. CCDR has been instrumental in bringing vital dance energies
and opportunities to Flagstaff since 1981 and to the ASU campus
and community of Tempe since 2006.
CCDR has a Dream:
CCDR's vision is that the understanding
of people, as expressed through dance and all the performing
arts, will contribute to personal well-being and global peace.
CCDR envisions an increasing
popular, holistic appreciation of dance, and an ever greater
scholarly attention on dance.
Founded in perpetuity, CCDR
envisions expansion. The CCDR Research Center and Business Office
work collaboratively to:
- EXPANDED OUTREACH
by establishing regional offices throughout the state and
elsewhere.
- EXPANDED PUBLICATIONS
As monies become available for publication, CCDR has several
manuscripts in preparation.
- EXPANDED RESEARCH
Opportunities and provisions for more interns and residents.
The development of the Silhougraph® Project.
- EXPANDED NETWORKING
More collaboration with other organizations. Greater
use of CCDR as a resource by individuals and groups who are
interested in cultural diversity and multi-culturalism.
- EXPANDED SPACE
CCDR needs land and monies to build a larger facility in order
to house archival space that is temperature and humidity controlled,
with performance space, and housing for residents and guest
artists.
Volunteer/Docent Program:
- Library - working with virtual
library and physical library (entering data on computer and
caring for shelved items)
- Hands on with archives and
collections (organizing papers and filing, and repairing of
costumes and musical instruments)
- Maintenance and repair of
building
- Rendering Silhougraphs®
- Contacting possible donors
- Finding new members
- Researching special projects
- Grant writing
- Legal assistance
- Bookkeeping
- Serving on the Board
- Serving on the Advisory Council
- You name it!
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CCDR's
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
PRESIDENT
- Pegge Vissicaro
VICE-PRESIDENT - Elsie Ivancich.Dunin
SECRETARY - Danielle van Dobben
TREASURER - Joann Kealiinohomoku
EXECUTIVE BOARD MEMBER AT LARGE - GinaMarie
. Harris
Jessica Yu
Adair Landborn
LEGAL COUNSEL - Kathleen Williamson, Attorney
at Law
CCDR's ASU BUSINESS OFFICE - LaShonda L.Williams
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Cross-Cultural Dance
Resources
518 S. Agassiz St.
Flagstaff, AZ 86001-5711
(928)774-8108
ccdr-researchcenter@ccdr.org
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